During 2006 and 2007, John Boyne, author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, The Absolutist and This House Is Haunted, was commissioned by the Sunday Tribune newspaper in Ireland to write a weekly 500 word short story. Here, gathered together for the first time, are all 50 stories.

• A History of Loneliness
• Stay Where You Are And Then Leave
• Rest Day
• The Absolutist
• The House of Special Purpose